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Mustangs keep winning ways going ahead of Pepsi Center game

By Brandon Boles

Fort Morgan Times

Posted:
02/12/2018 10:25:10 AM MST

Haley Lewis and Allie Christensen, the two leading scorers for the Fort Morgan girls basketball team this season, went off for big games Friday night against the Skyview Wolverines and led the team to a 63-35 road win.

The offense started fast for the Mustangs and never slowed down. Getting out and scoring in the paint was Lewis, who made 10 of her 12 shot attempts from the field to finish with a team-high 25 points. When Skyview chose to foul her, she made them pay for it by hitting all five of her free throw attempts.

Fort Morgan worked in the paint most of the night, but still managed to get some outside shooting from Christensen, who finished with 16 points. She would make six of her nine shots from the field, including three 3-pointers in the game.

The Mustangs would overpower Skyview in the first quarter with 18 points to take an early nine-point lead. During the next two quarters, Fort Morgan started to slow down the Wolverines' offense, holding them to 13 points in that duration to pull ahead by a big margin.

Unlike in previous games where they held a huge shot discrepancy, Fort Morgan only had one more shot attempted than Skyview. The difference was their shooting percentage as the Mustangs shot 59 percent from the field compared to 26 percent from Skyview in the win.

Whitney Frasco and Kelsey Kalous led the second unit with six points each off the bench. Head coach Andy Schon again had the luxury of using his role players for a large portion of the second half with the big lead.

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The win sees the Mustangs improve to 13-6 overall and extend their win streak to nine games. As of Monday morning, the team was ranked No. 16 in the RPI standings, putting them in position for a first-round bye in the 4A state tournament.

On Tuesday, the Mustangs will play their final game that will count in the Colorado 7 League against the Fort Lupton Blue Devils. It is expected to be a mismatch with Fort Lupton coming in with a 0-17 record, having lost 12 of those games by double figures. Tuesday's game will also be part of a double-header played at the Pepsi Center in the afternoon before the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs play that night in a nationally televised game.

The double-header will begin with the girls game at 2:45 p.m. Doors for the game are expected to open around 2:30 p.m. To attend the high school games that afternoon, a ticket to the Denver Nuggets game at 8:30 p.m. that same night is required. Discounted tickets can be bought online at nuggetstix.com/mustangs213.

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